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20 cities with the longest working hours
Last updated on: October 4, 2012 08:19 IST
Image: An applicant plays the vihuela in front of a teacher during a selection process for entry into the school of Maricahi Ollin Yoliztli in Mexico City.
Photographs: Edgard Garrido/Reuters.
In terms of working hours, Asian cities still lead the field with an average of 2,154 hours annually, followed by Africa with 2,138 hours, the Middle East with 2,023 hours and South America with 1,989 hours.
People work the least in North America (1,904), Oceania (1,849), Eastern Europe (1,829) and Western Europe (1,757), according to a UBS study on price and earnings.
The average of all 72 cities surveyed is 1,915 hours per year; annual working hours are below this figure in all Western European cities.
At 2,375 hours for Mexico City and 1,558 hours for Paris, the two capitals are at the top and bottom of this year's list, the UBA study points out.
Mexico City
Working hours per year: 2,375
Paid vacation per year: 6 days
(Annual working hours including vacation (paid) and legal holidays; weighted average of 14 professions (excluding primary school teachers).
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Image: Suh Jeong-deok, a former head researcher for Hanwha Chemical Corp, works at his cucumber farm in Sangju, about 270 km (168 miles) southeast of Seoul.
Photographs: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters.
Seoul
Working hours per year: 2,308
Paid vacation per year: 14 days
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Image: Monsoon clouds loom over Mumbai's skyline.
Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters.
Mumbai
Working hours per year: 2,251
Paid vacation per year: 20 days
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Image: A teacher gives lessons to second grade pupils during classes in a public elementary school in Quezon city, Metro, Manila.
Photographs: Erik De Castro/Reuters.
Manila
Working hours per year: 2,246
Paid vacation per year: 11 days
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Image: A Kenyan policeman guards a helicopter transporting seized heroin from the port city of Mombasa at Wilson airport in the capital Nairobi.
Photographs: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters.
Nairobi
Working hours per year: 2,197
Paid vacation per year: 22 days
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Image: A military personnel, dressed in protective suit, monitors nuclear radiation in a Taiwan-made nuclear bio-chemical detection vehicle during a safety drill near a nuclear power plant in Shihmen, New Taipei City.
Photographs: Pichi Chuang/Reuters.
Taipei
Working hours per year: 2,116
Paid vacation per year: 11 days
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Image: "Bam bam", a 16-month-old sea lion rescued a year ago from the city's sea shore, plays with a worker at the Parque de las Leyendas Zoo in Lima.
Photographs: Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters.
Lima
Working hours per year: 2,107
Paid vacation per year: 27 days
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Image: High rise towers are seen near the Dubai Marina in Dubai.
Photographs: Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters.
Dubai
Working hours per year: 2,096
Paid vacation per year: 25 days
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Image: Occupy Wall Street protesters hold a demonstration inside the lobby of a JP Morgan building in New York's Financial District on the one-year anniversary of the movement in New York.
Photographs: /Andrew Burton/Reuters.
New York
Working hours per year: 2,062
Paid vacation per year: 13 days
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Image: A man (L) sits with his son while enjoying the view of the Andes Mountains Range at the San Cristobal Hill in Santiago de Chile.
Photographs: Minh Nguyen/Reuters.
Santiago de Chile
Working hours per year: 2,035
Paid vacation per year: 15 days
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Image: People brave the strong wind and rain in Tokyo April 3, 2012. Strong winds which hit Japan.
Photographs: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters.
Tokyo
Working hours per year: 2,012
Paid vacation per year: 17 days
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Image: A woman walks in front of an advertisement for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in Manama.
Photographs: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters.
Manama
Working hours per year: 1,989
Paid vacation per year: 22 days
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Image: BASE jumper Eder Navacerrada of Spain leaps before opening his parachute, from Kuala Lumpur Tower.
Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters.
Kuala Lumpur
Working hours per year: 1,986
Paid vacation per year: 15 days
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Image: Passengers descend from a transmilenio station in a central avenue in Bogota.
Photographs: Felipe Caicedo/Reuters.
Bogota
Working hours per year: 1,981
Paid vacation per year: 15 days
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Image: A woman looks up as she has her pedicure done.
Photographs: Reuters.
Beijing
Working hours per year: 1,979
Paid vacation per year: 9 days
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Image: A woman smokes a cigarette as she walks her pet dog on a pedestrian street in downtown Shanghai.
Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters.
Shanghai
Working hours per year: 1,967
Paid vacation per year: 9 days
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Image: Israeli dressed in costumes take part in an annual parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv.
Photographs: Amir Cohen/Reuters.
Tel Aviv
Working hours per year: 1,966
Paid vacation per year: 16 days
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Image: Kamora Cyprian, 2, has a dental exam at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles.
Photographs: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters.
Los Angeles
Working hours per year: 1,943
Paid vacation per year: 13 days
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Image: Pedestrians stand in front of a BankUnited branch in downtown Miami, Florida.
Photographs: Carlos Barria/Reuters.
Miami
Working hours per year: 1,939
Paid vacation per year: 12 days
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Image: A man and his dog sleep on a tram in central Budapest.
Photographs: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters.
Budapest
Working hours per year: 1,912
Paid vacation per year: 23 days
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